As more Americans fail drug tests, employers turn to refugees

Erie, Pennsylvania( CNN) Inside a factory near this lakeside municipality, a humanity comprising a blowtorch is putting the finishing touch on a plastic sprinkle cannon that will soon make its practice to a dwelling and garden-variety segment somewhere in America.

He is Talib Alzamel, a 45 -year-old Syrian refugee who arrived last time with his wife and five children. He can’t speak much English, but neither can most of the 40 refugees who work at Sterling Engineering, a plastic molding busines located near the coasts of Lake Erie. They give$ 8-14 an hour.

The refugees at Sterling come from all over “the worlds”, from Syria to Sudan, Chad to Bhutan. And they’ve all extended the company’s standard dope measure.